Pearls of Wisdom

Becoming a beautiful Pearl

I learned something about pearls the other day.  I think we would all agree pearls are a very beautiful creation of nature.  One of the most beautiful things that you can give a loved one.  Most pearls are passed down from mothers to daughters.  These are held very precious in families.  Pearls are created because the sand irritates the clam and as a way to cope with that pain the clam creates a layer of enamel to smooth the sand out.  This over time creates what we know as a pearl.   In the bible jesus talked about a man selling all he had for a pearl of great beauty. 

Pearls are created by hardship on the clam.  I think that we become pearls over our lives.  When we have troubles and harsh times come our way we find ways to cope we find ways to rise above these things and become better to become more beautiful.  Over a life time we create coverage of our hurts and pains.  The beauty we experience in life comes from some of our roughest times.  When I look back at my hardships I see that I needed each and every one of them to be who I am today.  The blessings I have in my life are from the lessons I learned from each and every hardship.  So when you are going through the hardships that we must look for the lessons.  We must find that in every difficult thing in life there is a positive takeaway when we find this we can move to our next level of beauty and happiness.  Creating a beautiful life is about understanding that hardships will come but you alone control how you handle them and when you move on. 

I hope that my writings find you well.  I have not been writing lately due to not having internet.  Thank you again for reading.  

I am hurt

How many times have you said those words.  This person hurt my feelings.  I am hurt because they didn't do what i wanted them too.  Why didn't they love me the way i wanted them too.

There is a lot of ways that we lead ourselves to being hurt.  So many ways we can have our feelings damaged by the actions of others.  So many times that we go though strife in our lives and the person that hurt us doesn't even know.  So to have our feelings hurt is a human trait.  For some people this trait happens on a daily basis.  They have issues with others actions on a daily basis.

So are you happy with getting your feelings hurt?  Is that a emotion that you like to experience?  Most people i assume would say no to this question.  So why do we allow others to control our emotions so regularly?  We alone hold the key to that question.  Because there is a truth of the universe you always control your reactions to others actions.  So if that is a universe truth then why do we react negative when we don't like that feeling of the negative emotion?

Well isn't that the 5 million dollar question of happiness.  I  think to answer the question fully we have to look at our conditioning.  We as humans only have actually 10% of our actions on a daily basis that is not conditioned responses.  We are told from a very young age how to react to actions from others.  We are taught that when we don't get what we want to cry and we might get it.  If someone doesn't say what we like to look at the reasons in ourselves they said it.  I honestly think that most of our conditioned responses that we are taught from our parents and others are wrong responses to the stimulus we experience in this world.

 Take fear for example most parents have taught the children when you feel fear to back off.  When you feel that fear response to not go further till you think about it.  I have come to belive that the fear response is releasing the hormones to keep going.  To give us the mental clarity to push though that comfort zone.  But that is for another writing just using that as an example.

So if we are conditioned to give certain responses can we not change those responses to ones that would be better for our well-being and happiness.  So when someone does something to you that would normally hurt your feelings can we not teach ourselves to have a different reaction and better reaction?  We can decide to not hold on to the things people do to us.

This is just a thought i wanted to run past all of my readers.  It is something to think about in everyday life.  I have started using the 180 method to think about others actions differently.  When someone does something that gains a negative response i turn that response and my thoughts 180 degrees from where they were.  I don't always do it but with that a breath exercises i have learned that i can control my reactions.  i will actually be sharing some more about this in my next blog.

I thank you again so much for reading.  Please share this with a friend if you like what i write.  it would help a ton.

I am the victim

Wow What a statement that is.  I AM THE VICTIM.

It is something that a lot of people live on a daily basis.  I did for a long time.  No matter what my situation i always found a reason i was the victim of someone else's actions.  I think that can be one of the biggest defeating attitudes.  Because if you are the victim then even when you do achieve then it is not even your achievement.

I am around a lot of people in my life with the victim mindset.  When something goes wrong the first reaction is to find someone or something to blame for the mistake.  Think about it in your life at work when something goes wrong do the people around you or even yourself look to point the finger.  take the blame and push to to someone else because it will make your life easier.

Take a look at the place you are in life.  Why, in your mind, are you at this point in life?  When you tell your story in your head who is responsible for the place you have in this world?  For a very long time i told myself that it was others FAULT that my life was where it was.  But that also meant when i did something good i would not take full responsibility.

Life is about what YOU do with it not what others do to you.  The control of your life lives within you and you have the ability to create the life that you want.  So truly honestly no one is the victim of anyone else's action for their attitude or place in life.  We have the choice of how to feel about how others treat us and we allow them to stay in our lives or not.  Ultimately when life is over and you are in your last moments what we have done in our life will never be in others hands.  It will be in our hands to look at life and what WE have made of these years on this earth.

Remember You control your thoughts and actions no one else.

Your Birth right

The Definition of the word birthright is a particular right of possession or privilege one has from birth.  This is something that you have the privilege of having just by being born into this world.  It is something that you can take just because you breath on this earth.  

I Truly believe that everyone in this earth has the birthright to be happy.  It is yours to have and it is your right to take.  Happiness can be yours and it is your responsibility to obtain happiness for yourself.  It is no one else's responsibility to make you happy but your own.  No one else's actions, thoughts, or attitudes have any responsibility to make you happy.  Not your husband, your wife, or your family have the responsibility to MAKE you happy.  only you have that responsibility.  I have used the word responsibility a lot in the writing so far because it is so important to obtaining your birthright of living happy and in abundance.  

Only i can effect my happiness.  Yes others can bring good feelings to you and make you feel good.  But ultimately you have to make the choice to be happy in the situations gives you.  Think about this we have all seen someone in a great atmosphere that has chosen to be unhappy even though everything around them says they should be happy.  Well why can't we do it the other way.  Why can't we see the beauty in life in every situation that life gives us.  Even death can be a beautiful thing from a certain perspective.  i have a friend that is a hospice nurse.  Most people tell her that has to be a terrible job watching people die.  no it doesn't have to be a terrible job.  it is a beautiful job that God only gives to the strongest people on the earth to escort people to the next dimension of life is so beautiful.  See all it takes is a 180 turn on things to look at it from a different light.  This technique can bring you close to contentment with life in all situations.  To know that there is beauty in all situations.  Sometimes it is hard to see the beauty and you can't in the storm of the pain in the situation.  Some times it takes time to hurt and to let it bleed.  but the longer you stay in the sadness the harder it is to see the beauty allow yourself that time to bleed but look at from other perspectives as soon as you can.  

We are resposible for your happiness the moment you put in others hands is the moment you lose control of life and feel lost.  when we take the responsibility to heart and know every moment we have the choice of what we feel we are freed from others control and have true freedom in life to be who we are and to be happy.  

You will never find happiness because it lives inside your heart already.  

So take your Birthright and make the choice to be happy by changing your thought processes.  It is not something easy to do but it is your responsibility if you want to be happy and obtain your birthright.  

Rejection

There is a saying the when someone rejects you it says more about them then about you.

I have thought about this saying because i have been rejected here lately and it was one that stung.  By what we are told in this wise saying when this woman stopped talking to me it was because soemthing going on with her and not me.  This is a comforting statement because it takes all the blame off of us.  I do believe people reject us due to their own issues and they are unwilling to accept you for who you are because of their issues with not being open to you.  But i also think rejection has something to do with us.  a lot of time we go after the wrong people or put our needs to the back and the universe feels that and causes the rejection.  We send out thoughts and waves which impact the universe telling it what we wont.  If we think i don't wanna lose this person since we are focused on losing them that is what happens.

I have always felt very deeply very quickly for the people in my life not just in dating but in friendships.  This has always left me open for the hurt of rejection.  I have felt it before and know the sick feeling that someone doesn't want you in their life but you would like to be in theirs.  I have learned in life that everyone is in your life for a season and they teach you something.  That is the wonderful thing about rejection you can learn something everytime.  Because i know that if i am being authentic not everyone will like me.  And i love that fact.

Show your love in actions cause they yell while a text is just a whisper.

Today is great.  you have facebook and twitter.  You have blogs like this one that anyone can get their message out to people.  You have simple text messages that you can use to have whole conversations.  You Can talk and see family all the way around the globe.  It has created connections that before would have never been possible.  It is amazing to learn and see things that the generations before us could never do.  We learn more from the couch then ever before.  They can put a camera in a womb and see a baby grow.  WOW.  What a time we live in truly one of the greatest times in history.


I bet you could see this but coming couldn't you.


What has this done to us.  I truly believe it has made us a weaker people.  addicted to instant gratification and afraid to get out of our homes.  I am addicted to text messages myself.  Think of it you send one and want a response when you don't get one from that person you feel hurt and offended.  Then you get mad at them for not paying enough attention to you.  Then you send another then another.  it is an addiction.  Then you have facebook and other social media where you can log on and see what your"friends" had for lunch and what their babies look like without ever breaking beard with them or even seeing those small babies.  You can learn so much about people just by looking at their profile.  But we don't pick up the phone and call a friend and say i love you we text it.  We have lost the ability in a lot of ways to go and find those friends in real life.  Technology has changed everything about society.  Form the beauty in a handwritten note to the awesome feeling of talking to the girl or guy you are crushing on for hours.  The things we are loosing are beautiful and they shouldn't be lost.  Don't get me wrong technology has helped us reach more people and helped in so many ways.  But don't ever forget how to love someone face to face and express those feelings other then a text message or on facebook.

My you have a blessed day.  Call someone that you love and tell them today.  Or better yet go see them.  take them to dinner.  Show your love in actions cause they yell while a text is just a whisper.

Gratitude

I haven't posted in the eddvate brand in a long time.  To be honest this is because i have been doing some major soul searching.  I am not going to discuss that here for all to hear but i believe sometimes it is good to move yourself away from things to see where you truly are.  There are times where i have issues with gratitude and i focus on what i don't have.  I know this can be an issue for a lot of the western world.  I found this awesome list today that put things is perspective for me.  I hope it does the same for you.

Even in uncertain times, it’s always important to keep things in perspective.

1. You are alive.

2. You are able to see the sunrise and the sunset.

3. You are able to hear birds sing and waves crash.

4. You can walk outside and feel the breeze through your hair and the sun’s warmth on your skin.

5. You have tasted the sweetness of chocolate cake.

6. You didn’t go to sleep hungry last night.

7. You awoke this morning with a roof over your head.

8. You had a choice of what clothes to wear.

9. You haven’t feared for your life today.

10. You have overcome some considerable obstacles, and you have learnedand survived.

11. You often worry about what you’re going to do with your life – your career, your family, the next step, etc. – which means you have ambition, passion, drive, and the freedom to make your own decisions.

12. You live in a country that protects your basic human rights and civil liberties.

13. You are reasonably strong and healthy – if you got sick today, you could recover.

14. You have a friend or relative who misses you and looks forward to your next visit.

15. You have someone with whom to reminisce about ‘the good old days.’

16. You have access to clean drinking water.

17. You have access to medical care.

18. You have access to the Internet.

19. You can read.

These are beautiful things that i and a lot of us take for granted.  We may not have what we want but if we focus on lack you will always have lack.  I will be writing another blog later today and posting tonight or tomorrow.  Have a blessed day.  And HUg someone.